The Blurgh

Now that Gretchen’s on board, we’re going to kick the posting up a notch, so make sure to check back regularly!

Classes are going well, and I made it through the first round of tests pretty much unscathed, so I can’t complain. My History of Pittsburgh class has definitely been the best so far. Dr. Lemley is a really fascinating person–he pretty much lived through every phase that this city has gone through during the past 40 years. He was born in the early seventies and remembers all the Superbowls and the closing of the mills. He went to college in the early nineties when the city was trying to find a new identity and kept spinning its wheels, which is around the time my parent’s left town for greener pastures. He stayed, though, and was on the ground floor when things really started picking up in the late 2000’s.

We’ve been going over the early history so far, which is fascinating. I didn’t realize how almost every street in the late 1800’s had a streetcar line down it– I thought the extensive train system was a new thing.

It’s crazy how things come full circle sometimes.